María del Mar Azcona's The Multi-Protagonist Film (New Approaches to Film Genre) PDF

By María del Mar Azcona

The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative advent to this significant new genre. 

  • Explores the origins and historical past of 1 of the main intriguing new advancements in contemporary movie worldwide
  • Guides readers through the genre’s relevant features and conventions, in addition to it truly is evolution and cultural relevance
  • Provides a theoretical framework that's built in the course of the research numerous movies, together with Grand resort, Singles,  American Pie, brief Cuts, and Syriana. 
  • Reveals the duality of the genre's modern preoccupations:  the impression of globalization on human lives versus the present country of intimate affairs, the hindrance of marriage, and the proliferation of sexual choices

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